Comments on: Sustainable Luxury: The New Face of Urban Living in Minneapolishttp://www.globalsiteplans.com/environmental-design/sustainable-luxury-the-new-face-of-urban-living-in-minneapolis/
Branding for Architecture, Engineering, Environmental Non-Profits, Landscape Architecture, & Urban Planning CompaniesSun, 01 Mar 2015 09:51:44 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.3By: Abbey Seitzhttp://www.globalsiteplans.com/environmental-design/sustainable-luxury-the-new-face-of-urban-living-in-minneapolis/comment-page-1/#comment-66075
Mon, 30 Sep 2013 05:01:30 +0000http://globalsiteplans.com/?p=29740#comment-66075Thanks for the input–I defiantly agree with you that the word sustainable is thrown around too often without reference to the meaning. In this article I wanted to question if some recent architecture trends, specifically in the area of new age high-rise apartments, are truly ‘sustainable’ as they claim. While many are LEED certified, which sets various standards involving localized building materials, passive cooling, energy efficient utilities, natural lighting, etc, they leave out various aspects, such as the possibility of causing gentrification in neighborhoods. While I believe it is a positive change for my community to start look towards LEED as a new building standard, I hope we continue to question if these are standards are high enough, and furthermore analyze other portions besides simply the build aspect (such as financial feasibility and neighborhood livability).
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Wed, 25 Sep 2013 19:09:44 +0000http://globalsiteplans.com/?p=29740#comment-65700I am getting tired of the use of the word sustainable without any thought given to what sustainable means. With that in mind, what is sustainable about this project? What is sustainable about most projects that are touted as sustainable? What are you trying to sustain and does this project enable what ever you are trying to sustain to be sustained? I don’t want to pick on this article because there are so many other cases out there of the misuse of the term sustainability, but let’s get a discussion going.